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... sometimes been forc'd to grope at his meaning . Peradventure the greatest critick would in some places have found my author abstruse enough . Yet are not these mistakes I speak of either so many , or of so great importance , as to cast ...
... sometimes been forc'd to grope at his meaning . Peradventure the greatest critick would in some places have found my author abstruse enough . Yet are not these mistakes I speak of either so many , or of so great importance , as to cast ...
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... sometimes to conceal his design in his titles ; as for instance , when having spent almost a whole chapter against phy- sicians , it is most likely that his intention was to conceal it by in- titling the same , Of the Resemblance of ...
... sometimes to conceal his design in his titles ; as for instance , when having spent almost a whole chapter against phy- sicians , it is most likely that his intention was to conceal it by in- titling the same , Of the Resemblance of ...
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... of necessity astonish the soul , and wholly deprive her of her ordinary functions : as it happens to every one of us , who 22 VEHEMENCY OF SORROW SOMETIMES FATAL . upon any sudden ESSAYS OF MICHAEL SEIGNEUR DE MONTAIGNE . 21.
... of necessity astonish the soul , and wholly deprive her of her ordinary functions : as it happens to every one of us , who 22 VEHEMENCY OF SORROW SOMETIMES FATAL . upon any sudden ESSAYS OF MICHAEL SEIGNEUR DE MONTAIGNE . 21.
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... sometimes hit upon something when I write that seems quaint and spritely to me , but will appear dull and heavy to another . But let us leave this subject . Every one talks thus of himself according to his talent . For my part , I am ...
... sometimes hit upon something when I write that seems quaint and spritely to me , but will appear dull and heavy to another . But let us leave this subject . Every one talks thus of himself according to his talent . For my part , I am ...
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... sometimes stumble upon some truths amongst an infinite number of lyes . Quis est enim qui totum diem jaculans non aliquando conlineet ? " - Adagium Cic . de Divin . " for who shoots all day at buts that does not sometimes hit the white ...
... sometimes stumble upon some truths amongst an infinite number of lyes . Quis est enim qui totum diem jaculans non aliquando conlineet ? " - Adagium Cic . de Divin . " for who shoots all day at buts that does not sometimes hit the white ...
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Page 414 - Where is the wise? where is the scribe? where is the disputer of this world? has not God made foolish the wisdom of this world? For after that in the wisdom of God the world by wisdom knew not God, it pleased God by the foolishness of preaching to save them that believe.
Page 276 - Immunis aram si tetigit manus, Non sumptuosa blandior hostia Mollivit aversos Penates Farre pio et saliente mica.
Page 139 - Not that fine speaking is not a very good and commendable quality; but not so excellent and so necessary as some would make it; and I am scandalized that our whole life should be spent in nothing else. I would first understand my own language, and that of my neighbours with whom most of my business and conversation lies.
Page 108 - All other knowledge is hurtful to him who has not the science of honesty and goodness.
Page 41 - We are not men, nor have other tie upon one another, but by our word. If we did but discover the horror and gravity of it, we should pursue it with fire and sword, and more justly than other crimes.
Page 662 - I speak truth, not so much as I would, but as much as I dare: and I dare a little the more, as I grow older; for methinks custom allows to age more liberty of prating, and more indiscretion of talking of a man's self.
Page 303 - Still earlier, Rabelais cites him with due respect. Montaigne, in 1589, says: " We dunces had been lost, had not this book raised us out of the dirt. By this favor of his we dare now speak and write. The ladies are able to read to schoolmasters. 'Tis our breviary.
Page 83 - ... pound them to a pulp, which they mix with their wine, and drink it; where the...
Page 267 - Still to be neat, still to be drest, As you were going to a feast ; Still to be powdered, still perfumed: Lady, it is to be presumed, Though art's hid causes are not found, All is not sweet, all is not sound.
Page 64 - Inter spem curamque, timores inter et iras, Omnem crede diem tibi diluxisse supremum : Grata superveniet quae non sperabitur hora.